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  • FAST FACT: Women Losing Ground in Job Market Since ‘End’ of Recession
    Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 11:43am
    By Allie FernandezRecent data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has helped to contribute to a fascinating new report by the National Women’s Law Center on women’s unemployment...

  • Changing Structures for a Changing Reality
    Monday, July 11, 2011 - 5:10pm
    By Jennifer P. Patello*Can it really be that men are experiencing more work-life balance troubles than women? Apparently, as reported in the Families and Work Institute’s National Study of the...

  • FAST FACT: Scary Stats on the STEM Gap
    Friday, July 8, 2011 - 2:10pm
    By Allie Fernandez*Although women, minorities and low-income students have made progress in the realms of education and career opportunity in recent years, huge internal problems with the US...

  • Spending Cuts vs. Tax Cuts: Who’s Getting What from the Deficit Reduction Plans
    Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 2:04pm
    By Juliana Stebbins*On June 22, 2011 Joan Entmacher, Judy Waxman, Helen Blank, and Melanie Ross Levin of the National Women’s Law Center presented Demand for Change, Not Spare Change: What's at...

  • Essence Music Festival: "Gains, Challenges, and Opportunities"
    Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 2:22pm
    By Sarah York*This past Fourth of July weekend, Essence Magazine held their 17th annual Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. The three day weekend delivered amazing performances and welcomed more...

  • Revive the Nation Through Child Care
    Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 11:11am
    Originally posted on Igniting Change, the Ms. Foundation for Women blogRecently, child care has been at the front of our minds at the Ms. Foundation. Proposed deficit reduction measures have...

  • NY Senator Encourages More Women to Run for Office
    Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 2:43pm
    By Ariella Faitelson*Did you know that 2010 marked the first year in 30 years that the number of women in Congress declined? New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand certainly does, and in response,...

  • Star-Ledger: What Will Follow Wal-Mart Decision?
    Monday, June 27, 2011 - 1:48pm
     NCRW President Linda Basch and Elizabeth Grayer, president of Legal Momentum in New York, discussed the Supreme Court's ruling in Wal-Mart v. Dukes; the obstacles women workers face when...

  • Getting to where you want to be in (non)profit
    Friday, June 17, 2011 - 5:14pm
    Navigating a career through the nonprofit sector may not be as easy as most people imagine. Once you decide to forgo the monetary bottom line to work for a specific cause or organization, you would...

  • Supporting Families and Reducing Poverty
    Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 11:38am
    By Melissa Stevenson*On June 9, 2011, the Center for American Progress Action Fund convened a discussion panel entitled “Strengthening Families: Developing a Progressive Agenda that Promotes...

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